As of Monday, 56 of Nevada’s nearly 12,500 state prisoners have been tested for the coronavirus, representing less than half a percent of inmates.
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A day after Nevada Highway Patrol Sgt. Ben Jenkins was shot and killed in rural Nevada, his body was escorted from the Clark County coroner’s office by hundreds of officers.
Tyler Jackson, 18, was arrested on Monday after he allegedly brought a knife to Pahrump Valley High School and threatened two other students, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Nye County Commission approved a plan Wednesday to create an ankle monitoring program for the county jail in Pahrump, which would cost inmates at least $300 a month.
The Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday said an inmate who died at High Desert State Prison in April died of natural causes.
John Witherow, a former Nevada state prison inmate, now is president of the Nevada chapter of CURE, a prisoner advocacy group.